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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching a @constitutionctr.bsky.social preview of the the Supreme Court term, and @gregstohr.bsky.social says we've been "spoiled" with big cases the past couple years. Court watchers, please try to remember the stakes, to real people, in cases. They aren't primarily there for your amusement.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a great day for traditional rivals to face off in Big Ten football. You know, like UCLA vs. Maryland and USC vs. Oregon.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've given up on Eric Clapton, but every fall, I just have to try to separate the art from the artist so that I can soak in his rendition of "Autumn Leaves".

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm tired of the baddies in this story arc--Putin, Xi, Trump, Netanyahu, etc. It was good that they wrote some minor characters, like Orban and Maduro, out of this season, but the whole series needs a reboot.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here in Minnesota, we talk about the weather a lot, though in a fact-of-the-matter way. The Northeast apparently needs to make it all about them and their feelings.

Weather map of the Northeast with a label "annoyingly wet and gusty" covering most of the region.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best argument I've heard for a Harris candidacy.

headline from Politico: "Newsom says he won't run for president if Harris runs again"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is basically a push poll and Zohran still beat it.

12. Mayor Mamdani has faced intense scrutiny from critics regarding his political circle and
statements. Do you feel his administration represents the core values of the average New Yorker
or is his platform out of step with average New Yorkers?
(N=500) n %
Represents core values of average New Yorkers-------301 60.20
Platform is too out of step with average New
Yorkers -----------------------------------------------------------140 28.00
Undecided --------------------------------------------------------- 56 11.20
Refused--------------------------------------------------------------- 3 0.60

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I worked about 9 months, part-time, writing radio commercials for a station in rural Pennsylvania. There were 2 women doing sales and they were tapped out, so I was a new supply of creative ideas. I got to know every business in a 20 mile radius.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This hits hard for a Minnesotan on the last day of the state fair.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Neville Chamberlain: "We're going to have peace for our time, and I'm going to have memories for a lifetime."

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"What's the story, morning glory? : The Garden as Oasis"

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#UsedToBeAHooters (Mall of America, or if you'd prefer, Mall of Southern Canada, September 2026)

Closed restaurant in shopping mall, with a bright orange awning.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/09/2026

Breaking news: The Trump administration is threatening to cut off executive agencies’ cooperation with the Smithsonian. An Interior Dept. letter threatened the institution “under current leadership” with loss of support for sourcing artifacts and more.

washingtonpost.com

Trump administration threatens to cut off agencies’ ties to Smithsonian

Echoing White House attacks, an Interior Department letter threatened the institution “under current leadership” with loss of support for sourcing artifacts and more.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just muttering to myself today: America's long decline reminds us no constitutional text, however clear and commanding, can lay a foundation strong enough to withstand tectonic shifts of culture and corruption.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park and give it to a private developer. The shocking directive reportedly comes directly from Trump officials. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

notus.org

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lake Ontario is hereby renamed after the Latitude Lines that comprise pretty much all of Canada's landmass and LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE, FEDS

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What are the chances that Trump directly ordered this detour, saying, "I learned from an old friend that there's no better way to recover than to enjoy the company of some nice young escort girls"?

News update from CNN, USS Abraham Lincoln stopping in Thailand on its way home from the Middle East.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton yesterday. Tim Curry today. All the greatest 80 year-olds are being taken from us, while the worst remain.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can build all the gaudy ballrooms you want and gild every statue with shitty gold leaf and slap your fuckin name and image on every building taller than 1 floor. But it's stuff like this 👇 that'll be how our progeny will know who was a good human and who was not.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

posted in the lefty folk group chat

Karl Marks, the communist manifesto, Dolly Parton, 9-5

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In recent years, I have asked my students to debate the merits of a system with a symbolic presidency or monarch, whose role it is to be an apolitical unifier. When they couldn't imagine it in the USA, I had them suppose it was Dolly Parton. Do we have any such person now? I'm not sure we do.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is truly a day of national mourning, when we can all come together to celebrate an American genius. Rest in peace, Dolly.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He makes Mayor Pete look like a minor leaguer at this communication thing.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In. Freaking. Sanity. It is not a "defense" budget if it leaves millions upon millions vulnerable to poverty and disease and the country weaker and weaker because we don't invest in the engines of our strength, growth or greatness.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Kids who use AI for their homework do considerably worse in supervised exams 👇

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some sentences hang in the air and in my memory. An hour after hearing it, I cannot get away from, "We are Milwaukee's premier Bee Gees tribute band."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Prince of Peace Lutheran in Roseville! I recently took a photo at that church, of an organized group which was making preparations to move across international borders and become migrants without U.S. government visas. Here it is:

A family of Canadian geese on the lawn of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Roseville, MN in 2026.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Immigration judge to my client in court today: "Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children." given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This video by Jamelle should be required viewing. What makes real, human wisdom so rare and precious is the way it synthesizes <sweeping arms> everything </sweeping arms> and makes our choices clearer.

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My forthcoming @uclalawreview.bsky.social article reports officers paid <.05% of settlements and judgments against them from 2018-23. This is consistent w/my earlier study, though I also find subtle differences that should inform policies/practices. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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strap-tap @strap-tap.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Curtis Mayfield's Superfly over Olivia Miles highlights 🥽 Credit to @seanahurd.bsky.social #WNBA

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For years, and indeed, generations in my family, we have dutifully put bay leaves in soups and stews. Despite this, I have never figured out what difference they make. I am beginning to suspect we have been sold a lie by Big Bay Leaf.

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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In American history, this kind of bigotry has been openly vocalized against Mormons and Catholics too. Those groups decry that injustice as part of their persecuted identity—yet many now embrace MAGA bigotry against Muslims. The threat to the republic is not any religious group but the fascists.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

With all of the wild headlights and tail-light arrays on cars these days, can I request one of these?

static.klipy.com

Cylon from Battlestar Galactica Scanning

ALT: Cylon from Battlestar Galactica Scanning

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Leo S @yoleo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just when you thought Olivia Miles couldn't do anything crazier... 🤯

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Birds Perched on a Dead American Mall, 2026

Geometric forms of a disused open-air outlet mall.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Well, the stock market is up, so everything must be fine now.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

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